Sarah DeLappe

DeLappe grew up in Reno, Nevada. Her father is the visual artist Joseph DeLappe,^[1] and her mother is a photographer and poet Laurie Macfee.^[2] She attended Yale College, where her mentors included Paula Vogel.^[3] DeLappe's play The Wolves premiered in September 2016 Off-Broadway at The Duke at 42nd Street and received acclaim and awards. The play centers on the experiences of high school girls through their weekly Saturday morning pre-game soccer warmups. It received the American Playwriting Foundation's inaugural Relentless Award in 2015,^[4][5] and was a New York Times Critic's Pick.^[6] The play won the 2017 Obie Award for Ensemble work.^[7]

The Economist reviewer wrote: "She has penned an absorbing portrait of female adolescence in The Wolves".^[8] The play was a finalist in 2015–16 for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize,^[9] a runner-up for the Yale Drama Series Prize,^[10] and a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize committee wrote: "For a timely play about a girls’ high school soccer team that illuminates with the unmistakable ping of reality the way young selves are formed when innate character clashes with external challenges."^[11]

DeLappe served as a writer-in-residence alongside J.T. Rogers for the 2018 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.^[12]

DeLappe wrote the screenplay for the 2022 black comedy slasher film Bodies Bodies Bodies, based on a story and spec script by writer Kristen Roupenian.^[13]

In March 2022, it was announced the DeLappe would adapt and executive produce the 1962 novel Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker as a film for Neon.^[14][15] DeLappe co-wrote the episode "The Heroes' Banquet" for the 2024 HBO miniseries The Regime.^[16]